Platform Security Architect — Distributed Systems

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 150,400 - 225,300; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, is seeking a Senior Architect to define architecture and oversee the operation of distributed web services enforcing security policy across development, manufacture, deployment, and operation of Apple products.

You will work with cross-functional teams to drive continuous security improvements, articulate system security requirements, and champion industry-leading security technologies across multiple product categories.

Qualifications

• BS in EE/CE/CS or related relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with security (e.g., secure boot, hardware roots of trust, designing and developing secure web services or scalable infrastructure for highly available applications, etc.).
• Experience with common programming languages such as Python, Go or C/C++.
• Experience collaborating across multiple disciplines, such as software engineering, hardware, and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams throughout the product development cycle to resolve system-level issues without sacrificing product security or impacting product design.
• Identify emerging threats, develop threat models, and define security architectures for new Apple products and technologies.
• Derive system security requirements, and design balanced and novel mitigations in creative collaboration with product and engineering teams.
• Develop detailed system-level specifications to guide product development and QA teams in the creation of tests and libraries for security integration.
• Drive security requirements and architecture into web application services that integrate with hardware roots of trust across Apple products.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Cross-functional collaboration

Python

Go

C/C++

Education

BS in EE/CE/CS

Masters in EE/CE/CS

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, is seeking a Senior Architect to define architecture and oversee the operation of distributed web services enforcing security policy across development, manufacture, deployment, and operation of Apple products.

You will work with cross-functional teams to drive continuous security improvements, articulate system security requirements, and champion industry-leading security technologies across multiple product categories.